OK, let's put the tin foil conspiracy theory to rest.
Dark Lord Nova is a fan and long term supporter of the game, it is thanks to him that f95 has the game on the site.
There are fans of the game so you will see people defending the game that they like, it doesn't make these "Lurking Hedgehog's alternate accounts".
Now, I agree that the content removal was unnecessary, but there is improvements to the game play in the remake and it plays smoother and flows better.
If you don't like the game it's probably better to move on to another as there's no point in making yourself upset and make wild accusations about other users.
There's nothing wrong with liking the game and having and defending your opinion about it. If you're a fan of such title and can look past many shortcomings nobody is going to hold a grudge against you for doing so.
But if you are defending a title with fanatical faith and you are seeing every negative opinion followed by valid arguments as lies or even a single negative word about your beloved title, then you are sadly not a fan (which is rather positive term), but truly a fanatic instead (rather negative description of a person from which "fan" comes).
It ain't your job to defend the game. It's developer's job. But not by writting poems about how great game is, not by making empty promises, but by creating game good enough so it can simply defend itself with it's content.
Therefore, Dark Lord Nova ain't a fan. If he ain't hedgehog under different username, then surely he is a fanatic.
While writting this I looked at Hedgehog patreon. He's having right now 3,659 members, with 557 paying ones and is earning 10.850 $ per month. Lowest pay in Germany is around 1500 €, while average is around 4000 €.
It is around 9900 € per month for a game being over seven years in development. A game which still ain't in the place it was before. A game with updates so small you can't really even call them updates.
Deveopers with less income, deveopers with jobs, those making thier games as hobby projects are making greater updates within a month than hedgehog within a year.
So no, I'm not making a simple assumptions. I am rather stating a hypothesis.
A hypotesis that this game is but on a loop of reboot just to milk and milk those fanatics and believers out of money by providing small updates to keep thier hopes up and nova is either creator himself wasting his time having a blast arguing or a fanatic who prefers to be fanatical believer who can't admit he was tricked and wasted quite huge portion of his life and money on a game which never will be finished.